Ahmed Resmî Efendi

Time span:

1750-1799

Place:

Istanbul

Balkans

Other

Career:

Bureaucrat

Diplomat

Short biography:

Ahmed Resmî Efendi (1700-1783), of Cretan descent, was the first Ottoman ambassador to Prussia (1763), where he was shown a review of the Frederick the Great’s army. Throughout the Russo-Turkish war (1768-1774) he was the kethüda of the Grand Vizier, Halil Paşa, to whom he presented his first essay (1769) on military affairs based on his experience in Berlin.